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tached to the stem. Young ladies with shears cut the apples from 

 the limbs to protect the leaves and then dipped apples and leaves 

 in a solution which closed the pores, causing the leaves to retain 

 their natural colors and conserving in the apples their best flavor. 

 After the solution had dried, each apple was wrapped in soft tissue 

 paper and packed in individual pasteboard boxes. The tops were 

 sealed on with gummed paper. On the top of each box was 

 artistically printed the name of variety it contained and the grow- 

 er's name and address. Twelve boxes filled a carton, on the 

 cover of which was an attractive label in colors showing a bright 

 red apple on a stem with several leaves and the wording, "Ozark 

 Mountain Apples, grown and packed by A. T. Nelson & Son, 

 Lebanon, Mo." The variety contained in each carton was stamped 

 on the label. They also put up a thousand cartons containing twelve 





The ten gold medals won by A. T. Nelson during the last twenty years on his apple 

 exhibits at the world's largest expositions. They are a credit to Missouri grown 

 apples. ^ 



apples, each packed in compartments, for which they received 

 fifty cents at Lebanon. Those apples did not have any leaves at- 

 tached to the stems, nor were they dipped in the solution. They 

 retailed in New York for $1.00 a dozen. The varieties used in 

 packing the above orders were: Ingram, Minklers, Willow Twig, 

 Gano and Ben Davis. About half of the order was filled with the 

 latter variety. In addition, they packed 5,000 barrels of very 

 fancy apples which they held in storage for the holiday trade, 

 receiving from $5 to $6 per barrel for the lot. 



Messrs. Nelson & Son were able to command such high prices 

 for their apples because they have built up a reputation for produc- 

 ing and packing the highest grade fruit. The senior member of 

 the firm has ten gold medals and a bushel basket full of blue ribbons 

 which he has won on his apple exhibits at the world's largest ex- 

 positions during the last twenty years. One of them was received 



